Hi Alan,
Thanks for your clarification and no need to apologise at all Alan. I've been
unable to get up onto the tablelands myself lately due to heavy work
commitments, and your notes on here have been great to see to keep people like
me updated on what's happening up on the hills with these hungry visitors!!
Were the 50 or so local Dusky WS you saw the other day actually with the
visiting White-browed, Masked & Black-faced WS??
Whatever your answer Alan, it's still amazing to hear about all this WS
activity on the tablelands - I'm just trying to get a handle on it without
actually having witnessed it up there. For all I know, there may well have been
some Black-faced WS mixed in with that huge flock I had here on the beach a
month or so ago - I will never know the answer to that now... :-))
cheers,
martin cachard,
trinity beach (beautiful yesterday, even better today!!!!),
cairns.
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Atherton Tableland Woodswallows
> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 07:47:53 +1000
>
> Greetigns,
> Perhaps I should have said that the most numerous of the Woodswallows were
> Dusky, a bit over 50 %. Sorry if my writing misinformed you Martin.
> Yesterday morning two separate large Woodswallow flocks in that general
> area, one too distant to ID the others nearly all White-browed and Masked
> with very many young birds. I saw only a couple of dusky and this time a few
> Black-faced. There must be a lot of these birds around. They were into areal
> feeding but also on the ground and in flowers.
> Regards,
> Alan
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Gillanders
> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 9:18 PM
> To: IROE ;
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Atherton Tableland Woodswallows
>
> Nearly 200 Woodswallows and a 100 Tree Martins on Chewko Road near the
> railway line crossing this afternoon. Most WS were dusky but White-browed
> and Masked too.
> Regards,
> Alan
>
>
>
> Alan's Wildlife Tours
> 2 Mather Road
> Yungaburra 4884
>
> Phone 07 4095 3784
> Mobile 0408 953 786
> http://www.alanswildlifetours.com.au/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IROE
> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 11:41 AM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Atherton Tableland Woodswallows
>
> Hi all
>
> Yesterday late morning a few of us went chasing woodswallows in the Mareeba
> area. No luck in the Koah and Chewko Road areas, and also out towards
> Mutchilba. Also no luck initially along Channel Road however on returning
> from Mutchilba along Channel Road we came across a flock of around 50 or so.
> Some were definitely White-browed Woodswallows, which was our target
> species.
>
> The weather in the morning was overcast and drizzly, so we suspect aerial
> insects would not be out and hence no woodswallows, apart from a few
> White-breasted Woodswallows doing the usual thing and sitting on power
> lines. When we eventually saw the woodswallows on Channel Road the weather
> had cleared and warmed up.
>
> It certainly makes a difference in identifying woodswallows when they are
> sitting on fence lines. Driving between Hughenden and Winton it is easy to
> identify Woodswallow species at 100 km an hour as they are sitting on the
> fence close to the road, or soaring just above the car! When they are
> distant in grey days we found it more difficult.
>
> Despite the un-obliging nature of the woodswallows (could have saved us 4
> hours of driving around by just being on Channel Road in the morning), it
> was a good day birding. The other birding highlight was when we stopped at
> Mutchilba to wait for woodswallows to come to us we saw White-winged Triller
> - also a sign of dry conditions out west.
>
> Ian Sinclair
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